This edited volume is the premier book dedicated exclusively to marine science education and improving ocean literacy, aiming to showcase exemplary practices in marine science education and educational research in this field on a global scale. It informs, inspires, and provides an intellectual forum for practitioners and researchers in this particular context. Subject areas include sections on marine science education in formal, informal and community settings. This book will be useful to marine science education practitioners (e.g. formal and informal educators) and researchers (both education and science).
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Ocean Literacy in the Twenty-First Century (Géraldine Fauville)....Pages 3-11 An Exemplar Model for Expanding Development Reach (R. W. Fortner)....Pages 13-23 Front Matter ....Pages 25-25 ¡Youth & The Ocean! (¡YO!): Partnering High School and Graduate Students for Youth-Driven Research Experiences (Emily Weiss, Bernadette Chi)....Pages 27-58 Leveraging Parent Chaperones to Support Youths’ Learning During an Out-of-School Field Trip to a Marine Science Field Station (Kelly Riedinger, Amy Taylor)....Pages 59-80 Systematic and Longitudinal Research to Support and Improve the National Ocean Sciences Bowl: Findings from Seventeen Years of Study (Howard Walters, Kristina Bishop)....Pages 81-92 Leveraging Ocean Identity in Education to Impact Students’ Conservation Practices (Amanda P. Jaksha)....Pages 93-107 Evaluating Differences in Outcomes and Participant Perspectives in Marine Science Professional Development Conducted by Informal Educators Compared to Specialized University Faculty (Timothy Goodale, Cathy Sakas)....Pages 109-121 Implementing Ocean Literacy Through the Bond of Informal and Formal Education (Grażyna Niedoszytko, Dominika Wojcieszek, Weronika Podlesińska, Katarzyna Borowiak)....Pages 123-142 Evaluating Ocean Learning—The Principles and Practicalities of Evaluating Formal Education Audiences in an Informal Education Environment (Andrew Robinson, Nicola Murray)....Pages 143-156 Effective Practices for Fostering Empathy Towards Marine Life (Jim Wharton, Kathayoon Khalil, Catie Fyfe, Ashley Young)....Pages 157-168 Front Matter ....Pages 169-169 Creating Marine Outreach Programmes that Work—The Marine Institute Explorers Education Programme™ (John Joyce, Cushla Dromgool-Regan, Noirin Burke)....Pages 171-189 Marine Education Through Cooperation: A Case Study of Opportunity in a Remote School in Taiwan (Hung-Shan Lee, Shiang-Yao Liu, Ting-Kuang Yeh)....Pages 191-205 Educating with Data (Liesl Hotaling, Janice McDonnell, Carrie Ferraro, Kate Florio, Sage Lichtenwalner)....Pages 207-223 Using International School Partnerships to Promote Ocean Literacy (Susan Gebbels)....Pages 225-240 Out of the Tower and into the Classroom: Marine Science Graduate Students as K-12 Classroom Contributors (Carol Hopper Brill, Lisa Lawrence, Sarah McGuire Nuss, Celia Cackowski, Kristen Sharpe)....Pages 241-255 The Virtue Project and the Biofilms and Biodiversity Project: An International Collaboration in Marine Science Education (J. Adam Frederick, Susan Gotensparre, Dan Jacobs, Björn Källström, Mikael Olsson)....Pages 257-287 Integrating Ocean Literacy in UK Curriculum-Led Field Courses (Mark A. Ward, Phillip R. Cowie)....Pages 289-322 Building Capacity for Meaningful Watershed Educational Experiences (Sarah McGuire Nuss, Kristen Sharpe, Carol Hopper Brill, Lisa Lawrence, Celia Cackowski)....Pages 323-340 Going with/Against the Flow: The Challenges of an Authentic Marine Science Education (Alan Reid, Harry Breidahl)....Pages 341-361 Bring the Ocean to the Classroom—Introducing Experimental Studies to Teachers with Fair or No Science Knowledge (Angela Wulff, Kerstin Johannesson)....Pages 363-376 Closer to Blue (Guy Julius Baker, Emily Readman)....Pages 377-400 The Two Bays Project: A Model for Providing Multidisciplinary Approaches to Monitoring, Education, Engagement and Partnership Building (Natalie Davey, Harry Breidahl)....Pages 401-415 Citizen Science to Engage and Empower Youth in Marine Science (Monika Lynn Krach, Emily Gottlieb, Emily Harris)....Pages 417-435 Empowering Young Ocean Conservationists (Sean Russell)....Pages 437-446